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“Despite our official announcement that we are not part of what is happening…the Turkish military monitors and targets our units”, the group said in a statement posted to their website.

Iraqi Kurdish officials said Saturday six people had been killed in a pre-dawn strike by Turkish war planes on the village of Zarkel and there have been reports of civilian casualties.

“We were outraged. We had no idea who the Turkish fighters were, their call signs, what frequencies they were using, their altitude or what they were squawking (to identify the jets on radar)”, the source told Sky News.

Turkish premier Ahmet Davutoglu will meet the main opposition leader Thursday for decisive talks that will likely determine if the country forges a coalition government or heads to snap polls.

The governor’s office for Agri province says Kurdistan Workers Party, or PKK, militants attacked a military police station with an agricultural vehicle laden with explosives early Sunday.

Four Turkish soldiers were killed and dozens were wounded in separate PKK attacks over the weekend in Turkey’s predominantly Kurdish southeast as violence escalated.

President of this very Regional Government of The Northern Iraq, Mesut Barzani tough his terminology about PKK later on losses of friendly non-military people found on the north Iraq resulting from these devices raids that were planned by Turkish Air Forces against Terrorism.

The last police officer killed died in clashes near a police station in Istanbul in the northwest of the country. Elsewhere across Turkey, at least eight people were killed and a dozen injured in a series of incidents aimed at security and police officials.

At least one gendarme private was killed in an attack on a military helicopter in southeastern Sirnak province Monday, the Turkish military said. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack, but the state-run Anadolu Agency, quoting unnamed police sources, said...

The attack in Agri province is believed to be the first time the PKK is accused of deploying a suicide bomber in the current phase of the conflict, although it has used the tactic repeatedly in the past.

One of the attackers was killed during the bombing, while two others and a police officer died in a subsequent firefight, the Istanbul governor’s office said.

The US Air Force (USAF) has deployed six F-16 Fighting Falcons multirole jet fighters and 300 personnel to Turkey’s Incirlik Air Base, in a bid to support Operation Inherent Resolve.

But a Defense Department official said Monday that the United States has not seen any movements to indicate the group was following through with its pullout plan.

Turkey’s largest city Istanbul was shaken by twin attacks on the US consulate and a police station that killed one senior officer, while five police were killed in the southeastern Sirnak province in an escalating cycle of violence.

“The Incirlik base agreement has been signed on our part”.